The USDA Market News Service, Greeley, Colorado, in the closing grain report for Oct. 4, reported in futures trading that Chicago December soft red winter wheat was $9.03; December corn, $6.83; and November soybeans, $13.83 1/2.
The export bid for direct Gulf delivery of No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, rail, unavailable; No. 2 soft red winter wheat, barge, $9.83 to $9.92, down 9 cents; No. 2 yellow corn, barge, $8.33, up 43 1/4 to 32 1/4 cents; No. 2 yellow sorghum, rail, unavailable; No. 2 yellow sorghum, barge, unavailable; and No. 1 yellow soybeans, barge, $15.48 1/2 to $15.78 1/2, up 29 1/2 to 44 1/2 cents.
Colby, Kansas, unit train wheat bid was $9.38 3/4 to $9.43 3/4.
In Denver and the surrounding area, hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, was $9.49 to $10.19
No. 1 hard red winter wheat, ordinary protein, north central Colorado, was $9.48 3/4 to $10.18 3/4.
In northeast Colorado, wheat was 9.23 3/4 to $9.33 3/4.
In east central Colorado, wheat was $9.33 3/4 to $9.38 3/4.
In southeast Colorado, wheat was $9.08 3/4 to $9.58 3/4.
In southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming, wheat bids were $9.23 3/4 to $9.26 3/4.
No. 2 yellow corn in north central Colorado was $8.13.
In northeast Colorado, the country elevator corn bids were $7.30 to $8.02.
In east central Colorado, corn was $7.08 to $8.23.
In southeast Colorado, corn was $8.23 to $8.33.
In southwest Nebraska corn bids were $7.68 to $7.93 per bushel.
No. 2 yellow sorghum in southeast Colorado was $6.78 to $7.43.
No. 1 yellow soybeans in southwest Nebraska were $12.88 1/2 to $13.28 1/2.
White millet in Colorado, southwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming was $19 to $24 per cwt.
Sunflowers were $24 per cwt.
In Denver and surrounding areas, corn was $8.13. Barley was unavailable.
In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, pinto beans were steady $39 per cwt; in North Dakota and Minnesota, pinto beans were steady at $34 to $35. In North Dakota and Minnesota, black beans were steady $40 to $41. Great Northerns were steady at $35 in northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska. In North Dakota and Minnesota, navy beans were steady $39. In northeast Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska, light red kidneys were $50; in North Dakota and Minnesota, light red kidneys were $46 to $52.50.